<nettime> Canadian Holiday Flamewar Erupts [spornitz, sterling]

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   Re: <nettime> Hey wait a minute -- aren't you guys *Canadian*?                  
     Bill Spornitz <spornitz@mts.net>                                                

   Canadian Holiday Flamewar Erupts                                                
     Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com>                                                


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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 11:10:02 -0600
From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz@mts.net>
Subject: Re: <nettime> Hey wait a minute -- aren't you guys *Canadian*?

Friends;

I'm afraid to report that the distinction *Canadian* has taken a 
direct hit, *on the home front*, thanks to a number of factors.

Whatever it is we _were_, what we _are_ very quickly becoming is 
estate workers;  keepers of _your_ wells,  bruces@well.com; our water 
for your thirsty lips and neon lights, our oil wells quenching your 
thirst for speed and convenience; comes with bullet-proof shell, 
interiors designed by your finest ergo-technocrons.

What's that? No problem! How high? - all sold to you, f.o.b. your 
place, at your prices.

We are joining the rest of the world, taking our place in the 
hollywood line-up of butlers and maids. Of well-keepers. Of butlers 
standing in wells. Just trying to get away from the smart bombs.


hohoho
b



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Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:34:39 -0600
From: Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com>
Subject: Canadian Holiday Flamewar Erupts

>From: Bill Spornitz <spornitz@mts.net>
>Subject: Re: <nettime> Hey wait a minute -- aren't you guys *Canadian*?

>Friends;

>I'm afraid to report that the distinction *Canadian* has taken a
>direct hit, *on the home front*, thanks to a number of factors.

*So you're brazenly *admitting* that ADBUSTERS is Canadian?
Ha!  We always suspected it!

>Whatever it is we _were_, what we _are_ very quickly becoming is
>estate workers;  keepers of _your_ wells,  bruces@well.com;

*Speak for yourself, wretched slave of NAFTA and FTAA!  The Well is in
distant, decadent San Francisco, while I live in the Republic of Texas.

>our water 
>for your thirsty lips and neon lights

*Okay, granted, you nailed the Californians on that one

> our oil wells quenching your
>thirst for speed and convenience;

*I don't suppose you frosty Manitobans ever heard of "West Texas Light
Crude," the global benchmark of the Greenhouse Effect

 >comes with bullet-proof shell,
>interiors designed by your finest ergo-technocrons.

*Well, they *used* to be our "finest ergo-technocrons,"
but Enron fired all of them last quarter, and now  they
stuff cordite into cruise missiles at minimum wage

>What's that? No problem! How high? - all sold to you, f.o.b. your
>place, at your prices.

*Look, fella: this plaint will fall on deaf ears, for you're sending it
straight to EuroLand.  Get a modern currency, okay?  The one you're using
has  a bird on it.

>We are joining the rest of the world, taking our place in the
>hollywood line-up of butlers and maids. Of well-keepers. Of butlers
>standing in wells. Just trying to get away from the smart bombs.

*I can only concur that the end is nigh, and every Torontonian
will soon envy Kabul...   Just last week I saw a wretched clan of Nova
Scotian migrant farm workers, out in the field with their stoop-hoes...
and it was *genetically engineered corn,* that was the real kicker!

bruces
http://www.well.com/conf/mirrorshades/


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